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July 21 marked as Shahid Diwas by TMC to commemorate day in 1993 when 13 people were killed in Kolkata Police firing at protest led by Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today led the party's marquee Martyrs' Day rally, an otherwise annual event that couldn't be held the last two years due to the Covid pandemic. It is all the more significant as it is the first after the party's victory last year brought it to power for a third consecutive term.
After the event at Esplanade in Kolkata, she will be at a meeting of party leaders to decide whether the Trinamool Congress will support the Opposition candidate in the Vice-Presidential elections, as it did in the Presidential elections.
July 21 is marked as Shahid Diwas or "martyrs' day" to commemorate the day in 1993 when, during the Left government, 13 people were killed as the Kolkata Police fired at a Youth Congress protest led by Mamata Banerjee. She was the chief of the West Bengal Youth Congress at the time. While she left the Congress later in the 1990s, she and the TMC continue to claim the legacy.
TMC workers from across the state gathered in Kolkata, where the preparations were supervised by the top leadership, including Ms Banerjee's nephew and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who is also a Lok Sabha member. The workers were out up in shelters at stadiums.
